In the Shadow of Vesuvius: A Life of Pliny by Daisy Dunn

In the Shadow of Vesuvius: A Life of Pliny

Daisy Dunn

324 pages first pub 2005 (editions)

nonfiction biography history challenging informative slow-paced
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Ash spewed into the sky. All eyes were on Vesuvius. Pliny the Elder sailed towards the phenomenon. A teenage Pliny the Younger waited. His uncle did not come back. In a dazzling new literary biography, Daisy Dunn introduces Pliny the Younger, the ...

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